A Kind of Hush examines how life is seldom a tidy affair exploring whether there is a gray area between right and wrong. Matt and Summer Mackie with children Willa and Gabe are enjoying a June outing at nearby Zoar Valley Gorge, an area showcasing waterfalls, forests, shale cliffs, and a whitewater creek running through the ravine, when tragedy strikes. One parent survives along with their teenage daughter and seven-year-old son found hiding in the nearby woods. Was this a tragic accident or something more heinous, and if so, whodunnit and whydunit?
Set in Buffalo, New York, and in the Big Bend area of Texas, the heart of the novel centers on how survivors deal with the circumstances and subsequent revelations surrounding the incident. But as each one begins to piece together the events of that day a mantle of ambiguity-a kind of hush-hangs between them like a live grenade without its pin.
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978-1-7373920-3-3 (9781737392033)
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JoDee Neathery's idea for A Kind of Hush, appeared in the middle of the night with the profile of the young boy and the first few sentences scratched out on the ever-present notepad on the nightstand beside her bed. "I didn't know the whole story, but I knew that whatever I wrote next, this lad had to play a major role in the narrative and Gabriel Edward Mackie doesn't disappoint." Born in Southern California, JoDee grew up in Midland, Texas. Her professional career branched into public relations, recruiting executives for TracyLocke Public Relations and Bustin & Co. in Dallas, and Creamer Dickson Basford of New York. JoDee and her husband currently live in East Texas near their only daughter, son-in-law, two teenage grandsons, a bird dog, four cats, a donkey and a few head of cattle. It was here she found her "dream job," chairing and writing minutes and reviews for eighteen years in support of the community book club, Bookers, whose members championed her novel writing journey. "They believed in me before I did."
